1. “Forty Years of Language Politics: Beautiful Losers and Sociolinguistics in Montreal,” Margery Fee, University of British Columbia
2. “Mom and Pop Capitalism No More: Canadian Cultural Responses to Shopping,” Kit Dobson, Mount Royal University
3. “Social Cosmologies and ‘Wasted Lives’ in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach,” Roxanne Rimstead, Université de Sherbrooke

1. “Are We There Yet?: Reconsidering Literary Tourism in Canada,” Brooke Pratt, Queen’s University
2. “Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Grave of the Famous Poet’:The Material Significance of the Writer,” Medrie Purdham, University of Regina
3. “Animating the Literary Landscape: Artist Residencies in Writers’ Houses in Canada,” Nancy Earle, Memorial University
4. “Time Travel: Re-Visiting Canadian History Through Literature and the Preservation of Domestic Spaces,” Alicia Fahey, University of British Columbia

1. “Here’s to the Fatal Future: Risk, Crisis, and Resistance in Dionne Brand’s Ossuaries,” Sarah Gibbons, University of Waterloo
2. “Beyond the Multiculture: Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For,” Joanne Leow, University of Toronto
3. “The Life and Death of a Poetics of Relation: Dionne Brand and Édouard Glissant,” Patricia Corrigan, Carleton University

1. “Reading Crackpot Today,” Jennifer Henderson, Carleton University
2. “Margaret Laurence: The Woman and The Masks,” Nora Stovel, University of Alberta
3. “‘Travis had never had so much fun playing on a team in his life’: Team, Community, Work, and Play in Canadian Hockey Literature,” Jamie Dopp, University of Victoria
4. “Where Fear and Fun Meet: Satire for Children by Mordecai Richler and Margaret Atwood,” Helene Staveley, Memorial University

1. “‘The Novel is Already Written in English, Just the Words are in French’: The Problems of Translating Dany Laferrière,” Lee Skallerup Bessette, University of Alberta
2. “The Transnational Movements of Québec, Printemps 1918 : From Quebecois Independence Manifesto to General Treatise on Free Speech,” Marissa McHugh, University of Ottawa
3. “Mad Translations as Magical Transformation in Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers and Douglas Glover’s Elle,” Robert Stacey, University of Ottawa

1. “Design and Disappearance: Cultural Memory and the Company Town,” Candida Rifkind, University of Winnipeg
2. “Supreme Work and the Play of Being: The (In)operative Community in George Elliott Clarke’s Whylah Falls,” Sandra MacPherson, University of Ottawa
3. “Working-class Hero?: David McGimpsey’s L’il Bastard as Organic Intellectual,” Rob Winger, McMaster University